Best quotes by Joel Salatin on Food

Checkout quotes by Joel Salatin on Food

  • Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
    - Joel Salatin
  • You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
    - Joel Salatin
  • Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
    - Joel Salatin
  • The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
    - Joel Salatin
  • Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
    - Joel Salatin
  • The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
    - Joel Salatin
  • You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
    - Joel Salatin
  • From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
    - Joel Salatin
  • Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
    - Joel Salatin
  • Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.
    - Joel Salatin
  • There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
    - Joel Salatin
  • Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
    - Joel Salatin